Thomas A. Edison Quotes About Inspirational
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
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I start where the last man left off.
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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
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Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
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I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
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The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
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There is a better way for everything. Find it.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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A man’s best friend is a good wife.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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